#sorry main tag for the two consecutive posts....

[the-eky]

And the Jimmy one too...

[sophieinwonderland]

Wait, “the system who attacked Eeveecraft”? You’ve got evidence on someone reporting them? Obliterate them Sophie!

Sorry, I have no clue who was responsible for falsely reporting them. 🤷‍♀️

The problem is that it really could have been anyone.

When I said "attacking," I'm referring to the fact that this happened shortly after an argument with Kipandkandi hurling accusations of racism at them. Could they have falsely reported @eeveecraft? Maybe.

Not long ago, they reblogged a post I made that called out SAS's hypocrisy on posting screenshots of Tumblr posts, and tagged it with "#sophie get banned challenge." So would they be willing to report someone who said something they didn't like, even if it didn't violate any rules? I think so. But just because it's something they'd be willing to do doesn't mean it's something they did.

And speaking of SAS, they were another system who reblogged the post attacking Eeveecraft. And back when my account was wrongfully banned and then reviewed and brought back for the first time last year, SAS reblogged a post suggesting they needed to "try harder" to get me banned again.

My account ended up banned the next day for a second time after more mass reporting. (These two consecutive wrongful bans are why I was whitelisted by Tumblr when I appealed again.)

Additionally, both are members of the Survivor's Network, a Discord Server that has a habit of discussing Tumblr syscourse in their syscourse channel, along with being responsible for other toxic and bullying behavior. (There was also another system who mods the Survivor's Network who reblogged that post on two separate blogs of theirs too. And I think SAS is a mod themselves.) If Eeveecraft's posts made it to that server, it's really anyone's guess as to what went down and who could have been responsible.

It's so hard to guess because any number of individuals in this group alone are morally bankrupt enough to have been in on something like this.

I don't know who actually sent the false reports but I do know that it wouldn't have happened were it not for the amping up of anti-tulpa rhetoric over the past week. And especially the post that tagged Eeveecraft while accusing them of spreading "incredibly racist ideas," which any number of users may have seen as a justification for reporting them for hate speech. (Just for the record, no, using words with foreign etymologies is not hatespeech.)

And... I do find it rather distasteful to directly tag a user's account that has you blocked as Kipandkandi did.

I can't for the life of me understand why they felt the need to tag an account that had them blocked. Generally, the point of tagging an account is to send them a notification to let them know they were mentioned. But that doesn't happen if you're blocked.

In fact, not receiving notifications from users is kind of the main point of blocking.

So... what was the reason for tagging the blog that they were blocked by other than putting an easier target on their back so any potential harassers would be within one click of the blog? Because I can't think of a single one.

[peachyteabuck]

what happened to your knees and loreloomis?

my knees: sports injury(s) + bad genes + lots of sitting cross legged. they’ve kinda always been bad but the sitting of quarantine means it’s just been exacerbated. 

with loreloomis, here’s a bulletpoint timeline of what happened from my perspective:

someone posts that loreloomis plagiarized an author they liked with evidence that seemed weak

loreloomis makes apology post that combats the evidence initially presented

i reblog both posts with gif-only reactions. the author that claims to have been plagiarized blocks me

my main contention with the original ‘call out’ post is the lack of evidence, since the initial evidence presented at this time includes a comparison between the (alleged) plagiarizer and plagiarized which is, in my perspective, pretty weak. like, evidence please. 

i reblog a post and add a comment that includes two things that become a point of contention:

1. that my academic background colors my understanding of plagiarism, in which one has to present all evidence UP FRONT because a plagiarism accusation can majorly fuck up one’s career and reputation. 

2. that the author who claims to have been plagiarized from saying she has had panic attacks because of her writing needs to...do something that means she doesn’t have panic attacks from writing. like, no one is saying you should stop writing, but if you’re having panic attacks over fanfiction you need to reevaluate your perspective on it. panic attacks are serious, there’s no shame in having them, and one should work to minimize them. this IS NOT SAYING THAT FANFICTION IS NOT A WORTHWHILE HOBBY - this is saying if your hobby is deteriorating your mental health you need to change something

i hear nothing for a day? ish? (reminder i have adhd and time is relative, so these are in consecutive order but the space between these bullet point is meh. you can check out my archive from around 4 weeks ago if you want a more concrete timeline)

i get a post sent to me by a friend, where like 5 different people are taking my point about academia out of context, making fun of me, and (most importantly to me) not just...directly replying to me. like, we’re all adults here and most of them are older than I am, but you can’t say it to my face? k. 

anyway - i reply trying to defend myself. and THEN shit goes down. 

(around this time is when i start getting lots of anons both in support/against me) 

blah blah blah, a back and forth occurs for a little bit

and THEN i get a post from a friend where someone misgenders me, and i never received an apology until 1 of the 2 (?) people who misgendered me @’s me and this whole post goes down

AND this post happens. i stand by my tags btw. the same person blocks me when i don’t respond fast enough to a quip (i was eating breakfast with my girlfriend...sorry for the delay?

then youngmoneysteala comes out with screenshots that i don’t understand that claim loreloomis is ymm, and i ask for clarification, and i get called a bitch once more

throughout this whole thing i’m getting asks saying im defending plagiarists, that i’m an attention seeker, etcetc.

around this time the short attention span of the internet has died out, and one or two people who were friends with both ymm and loreloomis have said they’re sorry for defending loreloomis, and about halfway through this list that’s all people cared about so people stopped...trying. 

and that’s the end of that

i, to this day, refuse to say whether loreloomis is eliza publicly. mostly because i think it pisses off people who put the cart in front of the horse. 

tl;dr

what began as an honest questioning of a plagiarism accusation morphed into a sarcastic response that culminated in the most fun i’ve had on the internet since 2012. 

[eternityservedcold]

My Three Page Pseudo-Essay on How the Kirby Anime Would/Should Be Made Today

This was written due to @hedeservesbetter tagging my post with “i woukd [sic] love to read this[, Akira]”.

Let me start off by saying there is a little more to this essay than what the original post says. We’re going to touch a number of topics not listed in it, but those are my biggest ideas. Let’s all also note the I don’t hate the Kirby anime. People accused me of hating the anime or trying to make it edgy the last time I made a post like this, and I still don’t understand why. It’s my favorite anime, probably. If it isn’t, it’s up there with Paranoia Agent and Perfect Blue as one of my favorites. Also note that the two “main” versions of the anime (Japanese and English) blend together in my head, and I’ll talk about both of them as though they are the same (because, honestly, you’re kidding yourself if you think they aren’t), but if I need to specify the version, I’ll use their full titles (Kirby of the Stars and Kirby: Right Back at Ya, respectively).

To say that nearly any animation that was made before the late 2000’s wouldn’t be better if it were made today is lying to yourself. There is so much technology we have today that we didn’t have before then. There’s a very big chance that if the Kirby anime was made today, it could be 100% 2D animation instead of half-3D like it was. That’s only possible because of programs like Flash or Toon Boom, which allow 2D animations to be made easier and faster. Most of the reason that characters like Kirby or King Dedede were animated in 3D half the time was to cut costs and development time. It’s hard to draw so many perfect circles and curved lines almost the exact same on every consecutive frame, but this downside is entirely negated by the use of digital animation tools, which allow you to copy shapes from one frame to the next. My sentiments seem to be echoed exactly by the development staff on the anime. Here’s a quote from Yoshikawa Souji (director and a writer on the anime), translated by Ivyna J. Spyder:

“3D is a way to increase the number of frames. If you make a 3D model once, then you are able to make efficient use of that. [...] [I]f it’s 3D, because you make a model, you can make movement from just clicking it.

“Therefore, the animator doesn’t have [a] hard time with drawing and can instead devote their time to movement, and it’s easy to get information of production and camera. [...] Already, it has 3-5 times the movement of normal TV anime.”

There’s also the option of it being a 100% 3D anime, like its 3DS-exclusive short, Kirby 3D. Being made only in 2012, the 3D already looks so much more competent. Of course, I can also point to the many fully-3D cutscenes that have been in Kirby games since then, the best-looking being the ones in Kirby: Star Allies. It’s very obvious that Nintendo has been becoming more competent with its 3D animations and models very quickly, considering their almost company-wide switch to 3D games, as opposed to 2D. Even with a television budget, ignoring the fact that Nintendo and HAL have infinite money to throw at anything they wish, this could still happen. A lot more fully-3D cartoons and anime have been popping up lately, including the visually gorgeous Land of the Lustrous and Miraculous Ladybug.

God, that’s a lot of words to just be talking about animation. And I haven’t even gotten to the part I started this essay to write! Let’s get on with that, shall we?

Escargoon is my favorite character in the Kirby anime, and right now, is my favorite character of all time. While that’s always subject to change, I suspect he’ll always be in the top ten. Anyone who knows anything about me knows I love this guy. I’ve even gotten others who don’t even know of the Kirby anime to love him.

Which makes me infuriated that he’s treated so badly.

You may have noticed I didn’t mention a certain penguin king in that sentence, even though he’s the one most associated with torturing Escargoon. But the truth is everyone, even the anime itself, seems to love to torture him. I don’t get it! I like the gay snail! I think he’s neat! And I’m sure at least a few of the writers and animators do too! So why does he get deprived of sleep and basic self care because “Haha, it’s funny to see him obsess over a robot”? Why does he get possessed by Erasem, causing him to go nearly insane from being forgotten by everybody? Why does he get abused by his boss so much it actually unsettles him when he treats him nicely? I don’t get it! I want good things to happen to him. I don’t want to watch him go insane from something out of his control every thirty episodes. Dedede isn’t treated like this, and he’s worse than Escargoon, objectively.

The anime starting with Dedede being nicer to Escargoon is a really, really good way for this issue to be remedied. Not only is the trope of a villain power couple way more interesting than “man in power beats his assistant who is clearly in love with him in Kirby of the Stars and has a choice to leave at any time in both versions, but doesn’t for some reason”, the latter is just unnecessarily cruel. Even if they don’t date or whatever, Dedede and Escargoon working together to formulate plans would actually be a force to be reckoned with, instead of making everyone that watches the show think “If Dedede is such an idiot, and Escargoon hates him, why haven’t the Cappies just killed him or something?”

Of course, you can have this and have the Escargoon torture porn episodes. Or! Just… don’t. Or make Dedede have an equal amount. Or is Dedede is still “more evil” in this scenario, make him have more. Listen, if Escargoon is still half-good like he is in the anime we got, he doesn’t deserve torture. I never understood this trope. Why do awful things happen to characters that aren’t actually terrible people? Especially for entire episodes?

I digress.

Let’s talk about Sirica. The fan favorite who was in... two episodes (or three in Kirby of the Stars)?

HELLO?

Are you insane, Kirby anime? Why is this character shelved for most of the series? She’s so goddamned cool! Are you OUT OF YOUR MIND? You packed this much character into one episode and not only is she shelved afterward, she doesn’t even get a satisfying ending so GODDAMNED KIRBY CAN BE COOL? This is not even addressing the fact that her mother died to make Meta Knight look cooler! You can read an excellent post about everything I’ve said here, said in a more compact way, but...

I feel like I’m going to scream at the top of my lungs!

I’m so sorry, Sirica. Let’s talk about how we can fix this.

First. Just put her in more episodes! It’s absolutely not fair that I can glean more character from her one episode than I can for Knuckle Joe, and he’s got THREE, but she still isn’t used! I can even think of an episode description right now, in like, two minutes. Here I go: The monster of the week needs to face an opponent who can change tactics quickly. We think Kirby can do it, but it’s still too strong. But wait! There’s a character with a SHAPESHIFTING GUN who can help Kirby defeat the monster! And the day is saved because Sirica is a relevant character in this scenario. It even draws a parallel to the Masher episode. This could also be fun to explore because Sirica is really stubborn and she might just straight-up refuse.

Also what’s up with Galaxia refusing her, by the way? What the hell, Galaxia? I just never understood that. I have no idea how to fix it, so I ended up having to write around it in my own writing, which was really annoying. I don’t see why she and Kirby can’t just fight together after that, even. She sits out for the rest of the fight after getting rejected by the sword. Like you still have a gun, Sirica, you don’t need to move around to use it. OH WAIT, NO YOU DON’T, META KNIGHT TOOK IT. THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN. IT’S BAD, MISOGYNISTIC WRITING!

Oh, I made myself upset. This was supposed to be a positive essay.

Some other miscellaneous ideas I have, that don’t need to be their own paragraphs: What’s with all the one-off characters that seem like they’re going to be important? If the anime was made today, the GSA would probably have a way larger role. If the anime was made today, it probably wouldn’t be episodic (See this video).

I don’t know how to write a conclusion, so here’s a little MS Paint drawing of Sirica instead:

Thanks for reading, and sorry mobile users, if that glitch still exists.

[closetofanxiety]

Beyond Wrestling all-dayer recap

This is not really a show review, more just a collection of disjointed musings from two shows I went to on Sunday, September 16, 2018: A free show in the parking lot of Feast, a hip sandwichery in East Greenwich, R.I., and “Somebody’s Farewell, Probably,” a straightforward Beyond show down the street at the Varnum Memorial Armory.

My God it was hot. Eighty six degrees, feeling like 91 with the heat index. Feast has no air conditioning, a common state of affairs for businesses in New England shore towns. This is probably bad enough on a normal day, but add in 250 or so wrestling fans all queuing up to order food, and the inside of the place felt like an oven. A moist, damp oven. Outside was no respite: the few tables had been taken long before we arrived. 

Luckily, a sort of Dunkirk spirit prevailed, and everyone was in good spirits.DJ Weed Pizza graciously offered the table space he had claimed to people who wanted to set down their food and drinks. A shirtless Swoggle hung out in the bar area outdoors. Jordynne Grace and Penelope Ford sought shelter from the sun underneath DJ Weed Pizza’s table. There was a man in a hot dog costume wandering around. Rich Palladino wore a tuxedo and didn’t appear to sweat. 

A free show on a downtown street corner is an odd beast, because, along with the wrestling fans, you get all kinds of curious people stopping by to gawk for a few minutes. This show drew a lot of kids, who were excited for the opportunity to stand at the ring. It was mostly kid-friendly comedy match stuff until Joey Ryan and the Pull-It Club (Massage Force and Johnny Cockstrong) came out for a match with Cheeseburger. Let me tell you: they did not tone down the act one bit! That made for some uncomfortable moments, at least for anyone who isn’t a total degenerate. “Oh, sorry, I’m just really excited about his penis,” said a guy with a replica to a horrified mother of two or three kids, after she glared at him for chanting “Touch his cock! Touch his cock!” at Cheeseburger. 

Cheeseburger won, by the way. He is now the Feast Wrestling World Champion; they had a belt that was better than the belts in many indie promotions. The owner is apparently a huge wrestling fan; he was wearing a Hangman Page shirt and interfered in the match on Cheeseburger’s behalf. 

All of this would be enough to hospitalize Jim Cornette, and that was before the main event: A Four Corners Donut Death Match. The competitors were Dick Justice and Puf. I wasn’t familiar with the latter, but he is a hugely overweight man (billed at 425 lbs.) in a brightly colored, donut-themed bodysuit who is currently ranked #500 on the PWI 500. 

The stipulation worked like this: there were boxes of donuts at each ring post (”These are shoot donuts, people!” Bryce Remsburg yelled, after the ring announcer called them “genuine donuts from Dunkin Donuts”). In order to win, you had to eat one donut at each corner. Along with the referee, the judge of this was the #25 ranked competitive eater in the world, who is sponsored by Nathan’s Hot Dogs. I am a college graduate.

I mean, it was what you’re thinking: two very overweight men in punishing heat, sweating and groaning through a comedy death match where, instead of tacks and tables, there were donut holes and a big inflatable donut. Lots of gross spots. Eventually, the Colony - Fire Ant, Green Ant, and Thief Ant - charged in for some reason and started beating up the two big boys, and it turned into a three-on-two match. Then Officer Magnum, Solo Darling’s dog, intervened on behalf of Justice and Puf, and got the pin. The dog, that is. The dog pinned, I think, Fire Ant. Eat your heart out, Lou Thesz! 

After the show we wandered around downtown and eventually went to a pizza place for dinner. There was a specialty pizza on the menu called a “Buffique,” with no description. “Excuse me, what’s a buff-eek pizza?” Mike T asked the waitress.

“It’s ‘buffacue,’“ she said. “Buffalo sauce and barbecue sauce.” For some reason, our fancy, city-boy pronunciation of “buffique” as “buff-eek” has made me laugh for roughly 16 consecutive hours. It’s the little things.

The Beyond show was a blast. Hard to pick a favorite match, because there were so many good ones. EYFBO are absurdly popular, and it’s only because of the sorry state of tag team wrestling in the US that they aren’t bigger names around the country. Only a matter of time, surely. Some highlights:

* Tom Lawlor vs. Tracy Williams was a nasty, nasty dogfight. People who complain about the lack of ring psychology and selling in contemporary indie wrestling (often valid complaints!) should watch this match: the whole story was about Tracy’s injured arm, which Lawlor worked over mercilessly. Really great stuff.

* For MJF’s match against Nick Gage, the Dream Team brought out a “cop” - a wrestler in what looked to be a stripper costume (it said “COP” over the breast pocket, which is not something you often find in standard police uniforms). The idea was that if Nick Gage used a foreign object, he’d be violating his parole and would be taken back to prison. You can imagine what happened! After a closely contested match (one of the Secrets of Nick Gage is that he is honestly a very talented wrestler), Stokely Hathaway interfered, which sent Gage into a blind fury. “Nick, it wasn’t me! It wasn’t me! I was over here, reading the Bible!” Stokely protested, but to no avail: Nick grabbed a chair and laid out Stoke, Thomas Sharp, MJeff, and the “cop.” There was a real cop on duty at the show, and he seemed like a good sport.

* I’m glad that Beyond crowds are now willing to actually boo heels. Along with MJF and the Dream Team, the crowd legitimately loathes the Beaver Boys and the team of Cam Zagami and Brian Milonas. It makes the match endlessly more fun when you can root against someone.

* Viper was an announced surprise, in a match against LuFisto. Nice!

* The main event was Jordynne Grace vs. Brian Cage, and it was just about the right length and just about the right level of plausibility. A nice way to build on their encounter at All In, which was referenced before the match. 

Lowlights:

* Mike Verna took a dive off the top turnbuckle onto the floor and Milonas and Zagami just totally failed to catch him. Mistakes happen, but you could see the expression of genuine pain on Verna’s face when he landed. Catch people on dives!

* Brandon Watts legitimately broke his neck at a Beyond Wrestling show in 2016. Since he’s been back, his high-flying style has been cause for more than one sharp intake of anxious breath from the crowd. In his match against Anthony Green, it looked like everyone’s worst fear had come true: after a spot in the corner, Watts was on the canvas, not moving. The referee threw up the X and called out to the promoter, “Drew, I need help here.” Other referees came over, along with wrestlers. Green sat in the far corner, looking like he was in shock. The crowd was totally silent. The on duty cop came over, talking into his radio. And then Watts sprang up and rolled up Green for the win. That’s honestly a shitty thing to do, although I realize fake injury angles are common in wrestling; this did not come across as fake, though. Later in the show, Jaka caught his leg on the middle rope during a suicide dive and landed on his face, prompting a pause in the match while people ran over to check on him. The crowd didn’t know if this was real or fake (it was real); that’s why you don’t fuck around with that kind of thing. A sour note in an otherwise terrific show.

[duhragonball]

Tagged by @sweethoneysempai

Go to page or paragraph 7 of your WIP, go to Line 7, and post 7 lines. Then tag 7 other writers! 

Okay, so.... I’ve got four things in progress right now.   And they’re all kind of a mess, so I’m not sure seven lines would even be consecutive. 

I’m gonna use the Bardock fic, since that’s got the strongest start, and the seven lines actually seem reasonably coherent.

"Don't listen to 'em, Toteppo," said Seripa as she patted him on the arm.   "Your cooking's fine.  Better than anything the rest of us could manage, or we'd be doing it ourselves."

By humanoid standards, a woman of Seripa's shape and features might have been considered conventionally attractive.   Like the others, she wore form-fitting armor that flattered their powerful physiques, and she had an earring on her right ear that implied a sense of aesthetics to balance her warrior's attire.   At first glance, an onlooker might have found such an aesthetic to be exotic or adventurous, but such an illusion would be shattered up close.    To meet Seripa in person was to smell the stench of dried blood in her hair, and the odor of viscera on her breath.  There was nothing mysterious or captivating about the steely gaze in her dark eyes; her expression was merely a warning to any who would dare to cross her.  

Toteppo grumbled at her compliment and made a half-hearted shrug.  

"It's not about the cooking," Toma insisted.   The others regarded him skeptically until he added: "Okay, I miss her cooking, but it's not just that.   She was good for morale."

"That's true enough," Panbukin said.  "Right about now she'd be telling us how great we did in the battle last night."

"Or going on about her brats," Seripa said.   "I wouldn't mind hearing how Raditz is doing."

"I can tell you how he's doing," Toma said.   "The little guy's eating better than we are."

I’m reluctant to post seven lines from my Caulifla/Kale story, because with any luck I aim the post the whole thing very soon, but this excerpt is mostly abour Dr. Rota, so let’s run with it.

Still, despite their miraculous reprieve, Universe 6 had still lost the game.   The team had fought hard, but they simply lacked the power to cope with their opponents.  Dr. Rota was especially frustrated, since he was eliminated from the tournament by Vegeta before he had gotten a chance to show off his true abilities.    This was what had brought him to Parnassan III.

"After we were brought back from erasure, your fellow Saiyans expressed a desire to continue training," Rota went on.    "This got me to thinking.    Perhaps the gods will hold other tournaments in the future."

"Maybe," Cabba said.   His dark eyes kept darting around, as if he were waiting for something to happen.   Rota paid no attention.    So great was Rota's love for his own voice that he cared little if anyone else heard him.  

"Naturally, you three would want to catch up to your Universe 7 counterparts," Rota said.    "That odd fellow, Son Goku, and Vegeta.    I have a score to settle with him.    Well, I don't mean to make it sound like a grudge.   More of a friendly rivalry, if you will.    Perhaps not exactly friendly.   I'd like to humiliate him, if at all possible."

"Yeah," Cabba said.  

"So I contacted the Sadala Defense Force to look you up, and they told me you were here.   I must say, this is an ideal training spot you've chosen.   No sapient life forms, plenty of open space, a wide variety of environments and climates to challenge both mind and body.   Nothing but me and three Super Saiyans.    A fine place to hone my skills."

"Uh-huh," Cabba said.  

This other thing I’ve got is an X-Men bit that probably needs a lot more work.   Mostly, it’s just dialogue that I was going to flesh out later.   But here ya go.

"Nope.    Sorry to worry you."

"No it's okay.   I'm actually kind of... Did you just apologize for something?"

"Yeah, so?"

"Well, I guess you really have changed," Cecilia said.    

"Life is change, healer," Sarah said.  "I really didn't mean to surprise you."   She pointed at one of the lengths of bone on her back.   "I didn't think dropping by during the day would be a good idea."

"I understand," Cecelia said.   "But you never asked for medical help before.    From what I can tell you heal almost as quickly as Logan."

"Relax, doc," Sarah said.   "It's just a social call.    Thought I'd be friendly like all the respectable X-Men."

Basically, I learned that Dr. Reyes never quite left the X-Men’s neighborhood, so it might be cute to have Marrow drop by her place unannounced.  But I’m not sure if I want to set this before or after Marrow got zapped by the Alan Davis Ray. 

Just as a bonus, I’ll toss in paragraphs seven and eight from Luffa #87, since they’re ominous and perhaps the only two paragraphs that don’t spoil a bunch of stuff.

As she chewed on a ration bar, she glanced up at the main viewer occasionally.   It was set to display a continuous readout on the sensor sweeps and life sign readings she had requested.   She had an hour before she would fire her pistol on the bridge again, and she hoped that she could knock out two more chapters of the novel she was working on.  

She was not alone.

I dunno who to tag for this.    Off the top of my head, I know @raxceni, @ediblenonsense, and @semercury write stuff, but I’m probably overlooking someone.    If you see this and you wanted an excuse to plug your work, this is it, effendi. 

[acdemic]

Do u have any tips for writing English essays?

absolutely!! 

i usually don’t start with the introduction / thesis statement.

i’ll construct my argument first, then figure out how i want to present and conclude my essay.

i think that writing a thesis to summarize the thoughts in your body paragraphs is a lot easier than trying to make the body paragraphs match a thesis.

plus, it allows you to refine, change, and expand your ideas!

i saw this on a post once (i forget where, sorry!) but it was something along the lines of “if you can’t imagine yourself dropping the mic after saying the last line of your conclusion, it’s not strong enough”

which is actually great advice!!

however i would advise against saying some overly grand assumption / generalization loosely based on your essay

ex: if your argument is that pizza is a good meal (fair point), you can’t end with “pizza has shaped generations of brilliant thinkers and without it, the world would be a darker place” (um)

always, always, always avoid trying to sound smart

i used to do this and i swear when i read my old essays my eyes want to roll out of my head (wow sorry that was super graphic)

don’t throw in fancy vocab if there’s a simpler, clearer way to write it

split up sentences, sometimes commas just aren’t necessary, it just makes the sentence drag on, the main point is lost, how tragic

be concise whenever possible. simplify. simplify. then simplify again.

try to write your essay so that someone who has no understanding of the topic can read it and understand your points

do a write-through where you don’t go back and edit stuff. just write.

i think a lot of people try to edit their drafts while they write, which is fine if you’re in a rush and won’t be able to proofread/revise later

but in general i would start with a session where you just write down all of your thoughts and arguments

don’t try to organize them, don’t edit, just get those ideas written

after you finish writing, edit it and set it aside. read it again after a day or two and you’ll probably see lots of things you want to change!

also, this leads to the next point: write early

leave time for big writing assignments!!!!

(and practice what u preach, hannah *squints at looming due dates*)

this will give you a lot more time to refine your ideas

i read a book yesterday that basically gave a three day schedule (doesn’t have to be consecutive days) for essay-writing: one day for writing a solid outline, one day for actually writing, one day for revising

even if it doesn’t take you three days, know yourself. know how much time it should take you to write an essay you’re happy with, and plan accordingly.

for thesis statements, one of my english teachers says that you should always ask “so what?”

if you can’t explain why your essay is important/interesting and worth reading through your thesis statement, your thesis or essay needs to be improved

“x book talks about gender inequality, which is an important subject in this day and age” – so what? how does it talk about gender inequality? why is it important? ask yourself questions about your essay as if you are a critic reading it for the first time

you could improve the previous thesis by adding details “x book discusses gender inequality, in particular the significant wage gaps in y industry, through its use of z writing strategy" or something

now we know what type of gender inequality, we know how it’s explored in the book - it’s a much stronger thesis!

peer editing is great!!

i cannot recommend peer-reviewing essays enough. it can be so so helpful to hear feedback from another person!

plus, if you edit someone else’s papers, you can learn from them by adopting skills/tactics that you enjoy in their writing

everyone benefits. yay!

that’s all i can think of off the top of my head. i hope some of those were helpful to you! if you still want more tips, you can check out my english tag or my essay tag for lots of awesome posts :) have a fantastic day!

[muunne]

Tag, l’m it!

l was tagged by Gomi!!! @gomioujosama thank you ^^ (Sorry I haven’t been very active and just saw this)

Rules: 1. Post the rules 2. Answer the question given to you by the tagger 3. Write 11 questions of your own 4. Tag 11 people!

1. what’s your aesthetic??

:O there’s so many but hmmm l’d say steaming cups of tea and crisp apples!

2. what’s your background pic on your phone??

On my phone? lt’s just the basic preset background

3. what’s your 3 best qualities?

l’d say my sweaters, because when you’re with me you’re never cold! And my baking skills and cooking skills!

4. if you had to choose any pop culture that represented who u are what would it be?

I’m not sure, actually 

5. what activity have you sp ent the most consecutive hours on?

Either writing or video games tbh I missed two assignments this week because I’ve been playing Pokemon Sapphire

6. favorite protagonist?

Saeran Choi!!

7. favorite antagonist? 

Saeran Choi!! Who knows what he really is

8. if you could be any mythical creature, what would you be?

A D R A G O N  They’re so magical and those wings yes I love

9. if you could have any super power, what would it be?

Who knows?probably the ability to stop time because omg I could sleep for so long and never be late to things :3 

10. 2 more positive things about yourself!!

I make the people around me happy sometimes!!! And I can make a good cup of tea and hot chocolate!!

11. what are you currently looking forward to/excited for??

Um, I’m looking forward to the semester being over ^^

My questions!!

1. What movie are you most excited for in the next 5 years?

2. Favorite video game?

3. What ice cream flavor do you like the most?

4. Are you excited for Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon?

5. Do you prefer the night time or day time?

6. Favorite subject in school?

7. Favorite anime/cartoon?

8. Nintendo or playstation?

9. Can you solve a rubik's cube? +v+

10. You’re favorite smell?

11. Forgive my self indulgence, but what made you follow me? (Alt. Is your blog your main or a side?)

I tag!! @distractorsaurus-rex @skrim @uhwhatdoido @louyook @spideronthewindow (I meant to tag your main but I can’t remember what it is, so feel free to answer on either!) @siriusly-mooned-off @ inima-de-diamant @mercury-imagines @jk-destroyed-our-best-gay-ships (I know you don’t follow me but >v<) @bi-bi-severussnape @biremus (You don’t follow me either so don’t feel pressured to answer them!)

[ripplestitchskein]

so ive only seen some of your posts recently but every time I do I think 'damn im really glad someone else in the fandom feels the way I do' bc im 100% on the same page as you. I mean i love CS but haven't been excited by the show or them really as much since probably 5a maybe? I'm sorry if people have been shitting on you just because your feelings about a show change (bc the show has gone so downhill) but please know there are people like me who appreciate you and agree with you x

THIS is exactly why I will keep posting them my dear. These kind of messages make me so happy because I know I’m not just bringing down my followers posting my feelings, there are a few who feel the same way and having that validated by seeing it shared is so important.

I’ve seen a lot of stuff flying past my dash the past few days and the thing that seems to be missing from some of the counter-negativity arguments is this idea that the only thing the Negative Nancy’s are contributing, all they ever contribute is negativity and it’s somehow bringing the entire fandom down.

That’s flawed for several reasons.

One - everything I post is properly tagged so those who follow me and don’t wish to see it can filter it out.

Two - I never post negativity in the main tags unless Im not paying attention and tag it Captain Swan on reflex and then I delete the tag when I notice. So for someone to see it they have to be following me, not blocking negativity tags, or specifically following negativity tags. In which case the burden of being brought down by negative feelings comes down to your dash management, not the person posting it. They don’t need you to criticize their opinions when they didn’t post them on the main public forum. They posted them for their followers, they posted them in their tags (which are the Tumblr version of a safe space whether you like that term or not).

Yes, Tumblr is a public social media platform, and by posting things on here you open yourself up to criticism, but it also has a system in place to make ensure it is safe for you to post and for those who don’t want to see it to avoid it.

What is does NOT have is a good group messaging or group sub space to vent these feelings to only certain people. And it kind of defeats the purpose of the platform to do so. It’s a BLOGGING platform not a Facebook wall or a Google Chat group. Maybe it’s a misunderstanding of what Tumblr is on their part.

Three - I have posted far more non negative or flaily posts on here than I ever post negative. That’s just numbers (which I will provide later when I have time to use the API to get them). This idea that negative posters are just sitting here hate watching and post constant bombardments of criticism is patently false. It’s usually a cycle: information comes out I dislike, I share my feelings usually in one post or a few consecutive ones as new thoughts happen, and then I respond to a few (not nearly all) messages that came in from those posts.

Then I get over it, because I had a place to vent, and I start posting as usual.

Four - only fans should be subjected to this “you posted publicly you open yourself up to criticism” not the creators or writers. The show is on broadcast television. It doesn’t get more public than that really.

And in the times I have reached out to the writers it’s always on a post where they asked for fans to do so, or in response to something they posted. I have veered from polite critique to angry critique in a few of them, that’s probably not the best behavior, but it is what it is and I let my emotions get the best of me. I own it, I’m fine with it, if nothing else it shows a commitment to the show and the material.

I also feel like I have praised them enough that when they suddenly abandon the things that made me love the show I should also tell them what I hate.

In my view, which people are fine to disagree with, it’s not entitlement. It’s expressing concern over a change in a consumer product. If the manufacturer of my foundation changes the formula after years and years of it being awesome to something terrible I’m going to write a review to tell them. I’m going to see what I can do to get them to go back to what they WERE doing because that worked for me, the consumer of said product. Whether the new formulation works for other people is irrelevant to ME and my money and my time. And it is my money with this show, I have spent a lot on merchandise and spent even more of my time. I’ve given them free advertisement and supported articles written about them and that’s not nothing, thats how television viewership works. Viewers promote what they love and put down what they hate and stop watching if it gets unbearable.

The show isn’t unbearable yet. Emma and Killian are still alive and they keep making statements it’ll get better. That’s how advertising works.

I don’t write to ask them to change it to my version of the show, I write to ask them to go back to the show I fell in love with.

So yeah. That's my view. I love that it helps you and others and I will keep being me.